Detector of reactor antineutrinos with plastic stintillation bars

Project of a segmented antineutrino detector is developed with the use of plastic scintillator rectangular bars 10 x 10 x 100 cm, wrapped in Gd foils and assembled into an array of 1 m3 active volume. The scintillation array is sandwiched at both sides by the continuous light guides of 100 x 100 x 1...

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Main Authors: A. Sh. Georgadze, V. M. Pavlovych
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Nuclear Research, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 2015-10-01
Series:Ядерна фізика та енергетика
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Online Access:http://jnpae.kinr.kiev.ua/16.3/html/16.3.0292.html
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Summary:Project of a segmented antineutrino detector is developed with the use of plastic scintillator rectangular bars 10 x 10 x 100 cm, wrapped in Gd foils and assembled into an array of 1 m3 active volume. The scintillation array is sandwiched at both sides by the continuous light guides of 100 x 100 x 10 cm size, from which the scintillation light is spreading simultaneously through continuous light guides between all photomultipliers, forming the specific Light Response Function (LRF), which is character to a certain nuclear event in detector. Analysis of LRF allows one to effectively reject background events, providing high efficiency detection of antineutrino capture in the detector. Monte Carlo simulations with the help of MCNP and ZEMAX software show that with the use of selection criteria the neutrino events are well separated from the background.
ISSN:1818-331X
2074-0565